Saturday, November 21, 2009

Trimming Abdominal Fat


Follow these simple steps to lose fat around your middle.

1. Completely exclude sugar from you menus

2. Switch form white bread to whole grain bread

3. If the first two steps don't work, further limit your simple carbohydrate intake by cutting down on potato, pasta, and rice

4. Increase intake of olive oils, tree nut oils, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds

5. Start doing or increase the intensity of your strength training workouts

6. If you eat just three square meals a day, have more but smaller snake-like meals, up to six ones a day

7. However, if you eat more than five meals a day and it doesn't work for you, reduce the number of meals to three but bigger meals.

Meal timing is an individual thing and it makes sense to change the timing that currently doesn't work for you.

As far as working out is concerned:

Aerobic exercise burns off abdominal fat, but if you're not overly heavy you don't want to do too much because it will interfere with muscle development. The best approach is to do 30-45 minutes of cardio three times a week and do weight training two or three times a week. Work your entire body, and do abdominal exercises every other day. If you can do more than 20 reps with crunches, make them harder by holding a weight on your chest. Do three or four sets, and a few sets of another ab exercise.

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